What would the all-in cost of marginal methanol supplies be in a world that featured rapidly growing U.S. methanol production for transportation?

How much risk would investors in methanol production face – and what would that mean for likely investment and production?

What would the national benefits of an oil-to-methanol shift be? Or, put a different way, is a shift to methanol similar to increasing oil production, or to cutting oil use?

Many of the most important questions are answered – or, at least, the foundation of the answers can be found – in Nobel Prize winning chemist George Olah’s Beyond Oil and Gas: The Methanol Economy, which we highly recommend to any interested party.